Ailsa Colquhoun

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Ailsa Colquhoun is a freelance journalist specialising in NHS primary care, and NHS dispensing services. She continues to enjoy a 20+ year career in pharmacy publishing, which has involved editing, commissioning and writing for all the leading pharmacy titles. She is also involved in strategic communications planning and implementation for organisations working with, or on behalf of, the NHS dispensing professions, working in print and online. Areas of speciality include: NHS politics, lobbying and contractor training.

Behaving the NHS way: an introduction to ‘values-based recruitment’

It seems that Francis, Berwick and Keogh have changed the way the NHS recruits and trains its people. Ailsa Colquhoun asks: do you have what it takes to work in the NHS today?…